I am excited to start making him little lunches, though. I get so inspired by the ideas on Pinterest and now I can put those to use! I just found this great website Bento USA and I have to say, if you're into the Bento Box craze like I am -- you'll love this store! They have a flat rate shipping of $6.00 (though, this time I upgraded to the $14.99 delivery to *hopefully* get it before school starts). Their store is very overwhelming, I recommend having at least a good half hour to browse it all. I ended up buying 12 items for a total of $45.49 + my $14.99 upgraded shipping cost. I can't complain!! The most expensive item was Keaton's bento boxes -- which were only $6.75/each! I tried to find them cheaper on Amazon and in fact they were about $4 more per box. Below is a photo of a lot of the goodies I got, including sandwich/cheese cutters, food decorating picks (for grapes, strawberries, cheese), a cold pack, food dividers, and even little silicone cups for dividing food. Many of the items were under $2.99. We've been lucky that he hasn't been in the "my food is touching" phase, but I'm sure that is to come.
So long pull ups, you've been haunting me for the past year and I'm so glad to say good-bye to you! We're on day 3 of no accidents with big boy underwear. We've gone out to run errands to Home Depot, Lowe's, Dinner out and even Publix... I think our longest stretch was 3 hours out of the house, he stayed dry and peed when we got home. He stays dry all night, too. I am SO incredibly proud of him -- it took less than (or about) two months, he was ready awhile ago but I wanted to be 100% sure.
HOW WE DID IT (I know I'll need to reference back to this with Corbin): We got his favorite potty seat which is available from Amazon and in Target stores on each of the toilets (powder room downstairs & his bathroom upstairs). We have the Blue one upstairs with a matching blue step stool from Bumbo, the green one is downstairs. He actually refers to them as "blue potty" and "green potty", too. Downstairs he uses his old Cars potty system as a step stool -- we received this potty to test out from House Party in February and used for the early stages of training since he was toilet shy -- I don't recommend this method and would skip it in the future. It's no fun to clean poop out of a potty seat, especially pregnant, so revolting to smell in the first place! At first we bribed him with candy and later marshmallows (the boy loves his "mar-mellows") but we quickly developed him having tantrums when he couldn't comfortable with going. What we started to do was PRAISE every single time he used the toilet, even if it was just a little drip drop of urine. We taught him to flush the toilet when he's done and kept playing the Daniel Tiger episode about using the potty. When we would be home (90% of the time) I'd keep him naked or in "big boy underwear" -- our favorite is from Carters. He loved this underwear because the colors were similar to Daddy's underwear, so he liked to match his Daddy and be a Big Boy! (Whatever works, right??) Anyway, whenever he'd pee in his underwear we'd explain to him about it, get him clean and put him in a new pair -- NOT in diapers. It helped that we have baby Corbin due in August who will be wearing diapers, so we even pushed the "Babies wear diapers, you're a big boy, you have underwear". He's also starting preschool and we explained how when he goes to school full-time he'll want to wear underwear, not diapers. He started to get the idea that babies do wear diapers and big kids are cool, they wear underwear like their daddy's. In time I decided to just go cold turkey... we went to Home Depot on a Friday night and I told him no more diapers, he had to wear his underwear and if he needed to go pee he needs to let us know. No problem, he stayed dry the entire time even after we got home. He slept in underwear all night, stayed dry. Peed first thing in the AM. The next day we went to Lowe's, then dinner at Steak 'n Shake and got home about 3 hours after we had left. He was dry, didn't have to go for awhile, went on his own. Slept dry all night. Today we're on day 3, I'm not putting that boy in diapers ever again. He clearly has it DOWN. The best part is during the day he will go on his own (but not before telling us he has to go). He lifts the lid, puts his potty seat on, scoots his stool, climbs up and goes. Sometimes he even shuts the door for privacy before hand, a few minutes later you hear a flush and the pitter patter of feet running out. We continue to PRAISE. "Yay Keaton, you did it!" and he responds "Thank You" :) Such a sweet boy. I will admit though, I don't know the last time he went poop... that has been a hurdle for us, but without diapers he eventually will need to go. He used to go on the potty but then one day he told us it's too scary. We'll get there, but for now I'm happy as can be!
The baby should be due "any day" (over the course of 4 weeks) now. As long as we get past July 29th I can deliver at Madison Hospital... yay! That's just TWO days away. I've been having a ton of pressure 'down there' including inner and outer thighs. He still wiggles around and gets into the oddest, most uncomfortable, shape shifting positions ever. I'm supposed to be on a Low Carb/No Sugar diet but let's be honest... it's summer, it's hot as heck (100's today!) and I am 9 months pregnant. Do you know how hard that is to be on a doctor recommended diet? I did splurge yesterday, but am making up for it all this week by eating extremely clean. I will probably try to eat clean the rest of pregnancy and after. Stocking up on essentials like LaraBar's, Coconut Oil, Chia Seeds, Almonds and more. Shakeology will be my breakfast staple on the way to pre-school everyday. I think I am going to try and cut coffee out for awhile, focus on natural foods for energy including fruits, egg's and yogurt. I'm trying to really follow Weight Watchers & Hungry Girl, I need to just buckle down and create a meal plan for at least two weeks for post-partum so Ryan can do the shopping without the added stress. We both don't know what we're in for, just like when we had Keaton. But together I know we can do it. It'll be fun, another adventure that in three years we'll wonder where the time went.
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